Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary By Stephen Calt To celebrate the holiday season we have lowered the eBook list price of Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary to $2.99 (through […]
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The Organs of J. S. Bach – $2.99 eBook sale
The Organs of J. S. Bach: A Handbook by Christoph Wolff and Markus Zepf To celebrate the holiday season we have lowered the eBook list price of The Organs of […]
Meet the Press: Laurie Matheson
During University Press Week, the UIP is joining other members of the university press community for a blog tour. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day, including […]
Happy birthday to ‘The March King’ John Philip Sousa
Happy 159th birthday to John Philip Sousa. Sousa began his musical education learning the violin at age 6, and when he was 13, his father enlisted him in the United […]
$2.99 eBooks sale for Society for Ethnomusicology meeting
To coincide with the Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting November 14-17, 2013, in Indianapolis, we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois Press titles on sale for $2.99. The […]
$2.99 eBook sale for NWSA meeting
To coincide with the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) annual meeting November 7-10, 2013, in Cincinnati, Ohio, we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois Press titles on sale for […]
Chuck Haddix: the young Bird took flight in Kansas City
Charlie Parker’s emergence on the New York City jazz scene in 1942 changed the trajectory of jazz forever. Chuck Haddix, author of Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker, […]
Happy birthday, Charles Ives
American Modernist composer Charles Ives was born on October 20, 1874. In his book Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer, David C. Paul charts the changes […]
Bird the book and Bird the man celebrated with all-star jam
On October 2nd, 2013, jazz historian, radio show host and UIP author Chuck Haddix kicked off the release of his book Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker in style at […]
ASCAP honors ‘Beautiful Music’
Congratulations to author Stephen Wade, who has gained another award for The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. The book was recently honored with a Deems Taylor […]
Vernacular music and learning with Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith, author of The Creolization of American Culture gave a TED talk at Lubbock called “The Homeland of the Mind,” focusing on how people learn. Smith is an associate […]
Q&A with Creolization of American Culture author Christopher J. Smith
Christopher J. Smith is an associate professor and chair of musicology/ethnomusicology and the director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. A working musician, […]